History of the Peloponnesian War

For when they thought it best to quit their city and put themselves into their galleys, he said, they were bold to do it without asking the advice of them;

and in common counsel the advice of the Athenians was as good as the advice of them. And now at this time their opinion is that it will be best, both for themselves in particular and for all the confederates in common, that their city should be walled.